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Korea's latest dessert trend sounds as good as it tastes

A new wave of fruit-shaped mousse cakes encased in thin chocolate shells is pulling morning lines to bakeries, with customers chasing the sharp crack of the coating as much as the dessert inside. The cakes, nicknamed "agjak" after the Korean onomatopoeia for a crisp snap, look so much like actual fruit that it's hard to believe it's a dessert on first glance. But the appeal extends beyond the visual with the first bite: a thin chocolate shell breaks with an audible crack, giving way to soft mous